Arts: In San Francisco

Mrs. Adolph Bernard Spreckels,
wife of one of the sugar-gas-transit-charity dispensers of San
Francisco, was Alma De Bretteville, great-grand-daughter of a French
Marquis, Colonel in Louis XVI's Swiss Hundred. A lover of things
French, she conceived and carried out the idea of duplicating in
marble the French pavilion at the San Francisco Exposition of 1915, a
reproduction by Henri Guillaume, French architect, of the Palace of the
Legion of Honor, Paris, which was built in 1786 for the Prince
Salm-Salm, from designs by Rousseau (not Jean Jacques). It is a small...